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Peer reviewedLester, Barry M.; And Others – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1982
A multiple regression analysis studied additive effects of maternal age and prenatal and perinatal factors in relation to neonatal behavior. Analysis indicated that the combination of biomedical variables significantly predicted neonatal behavior, in both cultures (Florida and Puerto Rico), suggesting that age effects increased in the presence of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age, Behavior Development, High Risk Persons
Farrar, Elizabeth B. – 1986
In Belle Glade, Florida, a slum populated by Blacks, Whites, Hispanics, migrant farmworkers, and Haitians, where the incidence of most major health risks was far greater than anywhere else in the state, a program was planned and partially implemented which aimed to provide health services to at-risk, disadvantaged teenage mothers and their…
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Community Action, Community Health Services, Community Problems
